Rock Fractures in Geological Processes

1. Introduction

2. Stress

3. Displacement and strain

4. Relation between stress and strain

5. Loading of brittle rock to failure

6. Stress concentration

7. Theories of brittle failure of rocks

8. Extension fractures and shear fractures

9. Displacements and driving stresses of fractures

10. Toughness and fracture mechanics

11. Field analysis of extension fractures

12. Field analysis of faults

13. Evolution of extension fractures

14. Evolution of faults

15. Fluid transport in rocks: the basics

16. Fluid transport in faults

17. Fluid transport in hydrofractures.